With the Countries League and the start of the 2026 World Cup qualifying strategy, global breaks are planned for the entire home time.
Euro 2024 may have only just finished, but we're already not too far away from the next international break, as it will come just weeks into the new Premier League season.
These are dates that football fans look to put into their diaries as soon as the fixture list comes out, as supporters want to know when their club side is out of action and the spotlight falls back onto the international stage.
The international breaks will come thick and fast once the 2024/25 season begins, with breaks in September, October and November as the Nations League gets underway. And then later in the season the road to the 2026 World Cup begins, as the qualifying competition gets underway.
With England continuing their search for Gareth Southgate's successor and the rest of the home nations eyeing a place in the expanded World Cup in the USA, Mexico and Canada in two years' time, DataVictory takes a look at the dates for your diary
When are the international breaks this season?Swipe to scroll horizontally
Nations LeagueSeptember 2 2024September 10, 2024Nations LeagueOctober 7, 2024October 15, 2024Nations LeagueNovember 11, 2024November 19, 2024Nations League quarter-finals and playoffs Championship qualifiersMarch 20, 2025March 23, 2025World Cup qualfiersMarch 21, 2025March 25, 2025Nations League finalsJune 4, 2025June 8, 2025World Cup qualfiersJune 6, 2025June 10, 2025
The Nations League is the next UEFA competition, with the League phase taking place in the September, October and November international breaks.
England have been pitted against Finland, the Republic of Ireland and Greece in Group B2, Scotland will play Croatia, Portugal and Poland in Group A1, Wales face off against Iceland, Montenegro and Turkey and B4, while Northern Ireland have been drawn against Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Belarus in Group C3.
The quarter-finals and playoffs will be played in March 2025, before June's finals.
At the time of writing, the only confirmed fixtures are the Nations League matches for each country, with the draw for Europe's World Cup qualifying campaign yet to be made.
There will be 16 spots available for European teams in the 2026 competition after it expands to 48 nations and the qualifying competition will change accordingly. There will be 12 groups, where the winners will all qualify and the runners-up will be put into a play-off round, where they will be joined by the four highest-ranked Nations League teams who did not qualify in the top two of their World Cup qualifying grounds.
Simple, eh? Either way, we should have plenty of international football to fill in those blank Premier League rounds over the next season.
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